As much as others have hated Unity, I've greatly preferred it for the past few years. I am currently running 16.04 on a 17" i7 laptop and planning on finally upgrading to an ssd for my main drive soon.
I tend to only use one workspace, chrome with dozens of tabs open, and audio and graphic programs and will more often use windows in a virtual machine than actually boot into it. My screen is generous in size, but I still end up maximizing the programs I use most and appreciate every vertical pixel I have.
I like how Unity integrates the program titles into the same top bar as my notifications. It seems like every other desktop uses vertical space a bit more inefficiently and I'd like to figure out what to do when Unity is dead, as this is my primary computer for work and play. Cairo is my preferred dock, because it is invisible unless I mouse over a specific zone in the bottom middle and has a look and feel that I like, so I don't really care about other docks. I use the super key quite a bit for searching for programs, but almost never the HUD. Switching programs is usually done by alt-tabbing though sometimes mousing the dock. I don't want to see what programs i have open until I need to see them.
Perhaps I am not taking advantage of certain features which would make me more productive, but my first concern is that I am not distracted by the desktop.
I liked how one guy managed to get kde plasma to look quite a bit like unity, but ive been using gtk apps for long enough that i dont know if I want to risk switching to kde. it is difficult to find screenshots of desktops with maximized programs as it seems like most like to show off windowed programs and widgets.
Any suggestions?
Bookmarks